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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Ahmed the Clock Boy Makes Time’s 30 Most Influential Teens List

Oct 30, 2015 8:34 am By Robert Spencer

As he absconds to Qatar, his influence is undeniable. But is it for good or ill? My latest in FrontPage:

Ahmed Mohamed Obama

“Not many people make national news by bringing a homemade clock to school,” gushed Time as it named Ahmed Mohamed to its list of “The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015.” “But the ninth grader’s arrest, after teachers and authorities mistook said clock for a bomb, kicked off a national debate over racial profiling—and a outpouring of support for Mohamed, who was personally invited to the White House by President Obama (who called his clock ‘cool’). In October, he accepted a full scholarship to a prestigious school in Qatar.”

Racial profiling? Really? What race is jihad terror again? What race is carrying what could be a bomb to a school? I keep forgetting.

In any case, Time’s selection was perfectly fitting. Ahmed Mohamed probably deserves to be on the list more than any of the other 29 teens. As he hobnobbed with world leaders and was hailed as a hero by the international media, his influence was undeniable; the only question was whether it was a positive or a negative influence.

For Time and its mainstream media colleagues, of course, there was no question that Ahmed was a positive influence. He was a symbol of everything the media wants us to believe about Muslims and Islam: that Muslims are inventive, hard-working, industrious, and unjustly harassed by an out-of-control, racist and “Islamophobic” law enforcement establishment.

Forgotten in all the media excitement over this living, breathing confirmation of their narrative was the inconvenient fact that Ahmed Mohamed didn’t build anything. He just fit existing clockworks into a pencil box. His arrest was a hysterical overreaction, but not “Islamophobia”: school officials nationwide have acted in similar ways with non-Muslim students because of the zero tolerance policy on weaponry. There are ominous implications of this entire episode, with the inevitable effect that school officials will be wary of stopping Muslim students with suspicious objects — making Barack Obama exceedingly irresponsible, or worse, for joining in the lionization and canonization of this boy.

His family’s decision to move to Qatar now makes matters even worse. It demonstrates that despite the fact that the whole world has lined up to praise and reward Ahmed Mohamed for being a putative victim of “Islamophobia,” he and his family are clinging tenaciously to victim status. As the Washington Post noted, Ahmed was showered with support from “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and Google co-founder Sergey Brin,” while “Tweets, think pieces and daytime TV segments were dedicated to dissecting how Ahmed’s situation typified racism and Islamaphobia [sic] in America,” and he “visited the Google Science Fair, met with Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, posed with the queen of Jordan at a United Nations Summit, appeared on the ‘Doctor Oz’ show and last night, made it to the White House.”

Ahmed is the darling of the political and media elites, and yet, according to a family friend, “Everybody’s vilifying him, and he’s not a villain.” Everybody? Obama and Zuckerberg and Clinton and Sergey Brin and Omar Bashir and Ban Ki-moon and the Queen of Jordan are vilifying him? The mainstream media, with its endless series of weepy creepy pieces denouncing the school and glorifying Ahmed — they’re vilifying him?

Probably the family friend is referring to those who have pointed out that the school officials acted in a manner consistent with how school officials act, and that therefore the “Islamophobia” charge was unwarranted and the adulation of the boy misplaced. But to note those things is not to “vilify” the boy, and in any case, what are a few counter-jihad writers — who ourselves are genuinely vilified on a routine basis by the mainstream media — compared to the entire media establishment and the President of the United States? As the gifts streamed in from Microsoft and Google, and Presidents and monarchs line up to shake his hand, Ahmed was traumatized by a few posts on Jihad Watch and PamelaGeller.com, and the other sites that have met the media narrative with skepticism?

This ridiculous claim, and maybe even the move to Qatar as well, is likely related to the family’s earlier and equally risible claim that Ahmed, grinning broadly in photo after photo as he meets the world’s elites, has been “severely traumatized” by all this. They gave us that howler as they retained lawyers. Now, moving to Qatar to get away from the wave of “Islamophobia” that has engulfed poor Ahmed, they will likely be looking for those lawyers to deliver for them the coup de grace of this whole silly affair: a big payday.

We will be hearing more from this Influential Teen and his family.

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  1. cathy benson says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 9:36 am

    look for him to receive the Nobel Peace prize

    • Christianblood says

      Oct 31, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      I wouldn’t be surprised if America and the West nominate him to receive the so-called “nobel price”.

  2. pdxnag says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 9:47 am

    It is preposterous to demand that we all pretend that a hoax bomb was not in fact a hoax bomb. So preposterous in fact that the media has to work overtime in hyperdrive to sell the narrative that poor Amed is a victim.

  3. tom sawyer says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 9:51 am

    Libertyphobic says, Poor lad. Hope he learns in Qatar what a diode, resister, and a solder sucker are. Will he miss the good ol USA? Pray for the conversion of islam. Be vigilant and keep a keen sword

  4. Joseph says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 10:12 am

    Time has stooped to a new low.
    What is next? Naming the 19 hijackers on 9/11 as most influential men of the century?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 30, 2015 at 11:09 pm

      Well, they *were* pretty influential…

      • Joseph says

        Oct 31, 2015 at 1:13 pm

        Graven,
        America and the free West did not listen very well.
        Libtards still are not listening and in fact are helping our enemy.

  5. Angemon says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Probably the family friend is referring to those who have pointed out that the school officials acted in a manner consistent with how school officials act, and that therefore the “Islamophobia” charge was unwarranted and the adulation of the boy misplaced.

    Indeed. This is the behaviour we see in “feminist” and “civil-rights” groups: take a victim from a gender/race/religion neutral incident and blame it on sexism/racism/bigotry. Just shout “sexismracism/bigotry” loud enough, and do enough of a fuss, and people will definitely get on their side, evidence and logic be damned.

    • miriamrove says

      Oct 30, 2015 at 11:58 am

      A: He is moving to Qatar. Qatar is one the biggest sponsors of Jihadists. The clock boy’s dad is also a jihadists. So wait until this boy join ISIS. I wonder what Obama and the media are going to say then. m

      • Joseph says

        Oct 30, 2015 at 12:43 pm

        If and when this “child” is senselessly slaughtered due to Islam I wonder if his parents are going to be proud of themselves in the way they raised him.
        From what I have seen of the parents of suicide bombers, they probably will, especially if they get a cash reward for their sacrifice. A parent has to be inherently evil if the death of a child does not bother them and especially evil if they condone the suicide bomber indoctrination.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vi9oNs42hs

        I wonder what Ahmed Mohamed would think about his parents if he knew what was really in their hearts, Love and sacrifice for Islam 1st, love of my child 2nd.

        BTW Miriam have you heard/seen Champ around lately. Being a grandma is hard work. I just hope and pray that everything is OK with her and the family.

      • Christianblood says

        Oct 31, 2015 at 1:01 pm

        And don’t forget that like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, ISIS, Al-Nusra Front and other Arab Gulf Islamic Theocracies Qatar is also fully allied with America in its campaign to over throw the Secular Assad regime and perpetrate a new wave of Christian genocide in Syria. Shame on America!

  6. RonaldB says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 11:02 am

    I’m inclined to accept Ahmed at face value: a not-very-bright teen who likes to tinker in his father’s computer repair shop. Ahmed would probably be suitable as a tech in a computer support group if he continued his education. He would be totally at sea and out of his depth at MIT, Microsoft, or Google. Recall that his science teacher, who first saw the contraption, told him to keep it under wraps. But genius Ahmed couldn’t even turn off the alarm, which is what alarmed (pun not intended, but noticed) the English teacher who called the police.

    Ahmed’s father is a narcissistic panderer whose main goal in life is to get attention. We don’t know if Ahmed inherited this trait genetically, or if he was simply orchestrated by his father.

    We already have testimony that the 9-11 hijackers stood out like sore thumbs when they were boarding their planes. They looked and acted weird. The ticket agents and security people did not act on their instincts because even then, under the George Bush administration, they would be liable for heavy damages if accused of racial profiling. CAIR and the other Muslim interest groups, including the White House, are exploiting this incident to make any effective security as difficult as possible.

  7. dsinc says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 11:24 am

    Time magazine, time it died a sudden death. I wouldn’t even touch it, never mind read it.

  8. concerned canadian says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 11:35 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=185&v=2R5peL26L-U

    this is a great link !!!

    someone with kahoonies

    he must be a hater !

  9. Robert_K says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 11:47 am

    It is fitting that “Time” magazine gave the title influential teen to Ahmed the “clock maker”.

  10. rubiconrest says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    Of course TIME had to have at least one Muslim teen on the list and ‘clockboy’ was the best they could find. Most influential yes, in a negative sense.

  11. mortimer says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Conclusion: A brown teenager carrying a bomb should not be suspect until after the bomb explodes.

    • Katnis says

      Oct 30, 2015 at 7:19 pm

      Well said. I am SO SICK of clock boy I could not finish the article. The kid makes my skin crawl.

  12. Westman says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    If the school district is wise, they will accept national donations for the defense of any lawsuits. Because of fraudulent statements made by Ahmed about “inventing” & “building” the clock electronics, running off to Qatar, and the requirement for him to personally testify, the suits are likely to fail.

    In the end, Ahmed is likely to be the victim who pays for his father’s intentions and glory; a father who may have sold a son into a delayed tragedy. Ahmed is now in the position of “produce or perish” as the starstruck media and freebies subside. The analytical media will be keeping an eye on his progress. Let’s wish him luck, “inshallah”.

  13. Sam says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    Sick people at Time Mag.

  14. Liam1304 says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    Maybe the move to Qatar had quite a bit to do with he and his family’s likelihood to be prosecuted for extortion if they stayed in the US?

  15. gravenimage says

    Oct 30, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    “Influential” is like “change”–one cannot assume that this is necessarily for the good.

  16. Davegreybeard says

    Oct 31, 2015 at 12:53 am

    I would suggest it is more beneficial (and more troubling) to consider the big picture here and reflect on the fact that there are numerous powerful forces arrayed against us. These forces have an agenda of promoting a lie and as such, they are the enemy.

    “Clock Boy” was clearly a setup and a scam from the get go. That Obama was part of it is understandable, he is in the enemy camp.

    But Suckerbergh, Google, Microsoft, MIT, Time, the Cambridge library, etc, etc, etc, all going along with this easily seen through, cheap charade?

    Stuff like this doesn’t just happen.

    Who is orchestrating this?

  17. BC says

    Oct 31, 2015 at 9:34 am

    This beyond farcical. I will never read a copy of TIME again, not hat I have ever read it much

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